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Find Articles, Citations, Reviews, and more in these Indexes and Databases:

• SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)
  
  • The most comprehensive database for all areas of chemistry.
  • Covers journal articles, patents, conference papers, dissertations, technical reports and more
  • 1907-present, plus selected content from 1800-1906.
  • Search for topic terms, chemical substances or organic reactions.
  • Note: you must register to use the Web version, or download and install the client version. Follow the instructions on the page.
• Academic Search Complete
  • General index to current magazines and journals; useful for news, current events and popular treatments of science topics
  • Popular magazines, major scholarly journals, some newspapers
  • 1984-present
• Biological Sciences Database
  • Useful for biochemistry and biotechnology
  • Covers journal articles and conference papers.
  • 1982-present.
• Biosis Previews
  • Premier database for all areas of biology; useful for biochemistry and chemical biology
  • Detailed indexing for genus/species, broader taxonomic groups and biolgical topics
  • Covers journal articles and conference papers
  • 1926-present
• Catalysts and Catalysed Reactions
  • Specialized index for catalyzed chemical reactions, with specialized search fields
  • Selected journal articles, 2001 to present
• CHEMnetBASE
  • Collections of chemical data, including the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and the Combined Chemical Dictionary
  • Searchable by chemical name, numeric data ranges and chemical structure
• ChemSpider.com
  • Database of chemical substances from a variety of sources.  Currently owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Searchable by name, CAS RN, SMILES string, InChI key, chemical properties, and more
  • Contains name, synonym, expericmental and predicted properties data
  • Links to references from PubMed, spectra from various sources, Wikipedia articles
• Compendex Plus
  • Premier database for all areas of engineering; good for industrial chemistry
  • Covers journal articles and conference papers.
  • 1884-present
• CrossFire (Beilstein/Gmelin)
  • Most detailed collection of chemical data for organic (Beilstein) and inorganic/organometallic (Gmelin) compounds
  • Requires CrossFire Commander client software.
• Dissertations and Theses
  • Index to doctoral dissertations and masters theses from most North American and European universities
  • Search by title word, author, advisor or institution
  • 1861-present
  • Full text of most recent University of California dissertations available as PDF files free of charge to UC users.
• INSPEC
  • Premier database for physics, electronics and computing; good for physical chemistry, chemical physics, electronic materials.
  • Covers journal articles and conference papers
  • 1896-present
• Methods in Organic Synthesis
  • Specialized database for organic synthesis articles, with indexing of reactions, reactants, reagents and products.
  • Journal articles, 1999-present
• Natural Product Updates
  • Specialized database for natural products chemistry, with indexing of taxonomic terms and biological activity.
  • Journal articles, 1999-present
• NTIS
  • Index to U.S. government technical reports
  • 1964-present
  • For access to the full text of the reports, see the UCSB Library Government Information Center
• PubChem
  • Database of compounds, substances and bioassays submitted to the National Library of Medicine from a variety of sources.
  • Searchable by chemical name, structure
  • Links to articles in PubMed, bioassay information, other biochemical information from other NLM databases.
• PubMed
  • Premier index to the world's medical literature.  Good for medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry, drug discovery, etc.
  • Detailed indexing of medical concepts.
  • Journal articles, 1966-present
  • Note: Searches in SciFinder include the PubMed/MEDLINE database, so searching PubMed in addition to SciFinder may be redundant.
• Science of Synthesis
  • Extensive collection of detailed review articles on methods in organic synthesis.
  • Organized by the chemical class of molecule being synthesized.
  • Current volumes (2005-present) are searchable by keywords and chemical structure.
  • Archival volumes (1909-2004) may be browsed by table of conents; most are in German.
• Web of Science
  • Very broad in subject scope -- covers all of science and engineering (plus humanities and social sciences); good for interdisciplinary fields.
  • Journal articles from 1945-present for the sciences.
  • Most powerful database for cited reference searching.  Very useful for tracking additional references from cited, citing and related articles.

Collect and Organize Your References in a Personal Database

• EndNoteWeb
  • Create a personal database file of your favorite references by importing answer sets from catalogs and article indexes
  • Generate bibliographies automatically formatted in your desired style (e.g. ACS, CSE, APA)
  • Access your fles from any Web-connected computer.

UCSB E-Journal Titles:

• E-Journals Collection (main search)
  • Locate electronic full-text journals in the UCSB collection (over 10,000 titles available.)
  • Search by journal title, or by subject category, or by publisher.

Evaluate Status of Journals

• Journal Citation Reports
  • Evaluate journals in a given field using citation analysis.
  • Contains "impact factors" and other metrics for thousands of major journals in the sciences and social sciences for recent years.